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In 1936, the 24-year-old Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma passed the Travancore Temple Entry Proclamation decree, but this had no bearing on those who lived outside the princely state. Guruvayur was then in the Malabar district of the Madras province.
While serving as the Diwan of Cochin from 1919 to 1922, Vijayaraghavacharya focused on industrialization of the princely state as well as improving educational standards, including female literacy.
When Dr A Sankunni Mannadiar, a professor at Madras Medical College decided to marry a Scottish woman, it was an act of courage and defiance from both of them.
C S Ranga Iyer wrote a book, titled ‘Father India’ that brilliantly exposed Mayo’s work ‘Mother India’ for the racist colonial drivel that it was.
Malayalam helped blur religious and caste distinctions among the diaspora.
A correspondent of The Times, London, was so fascinated by backwaters and the old-world 'States of Cochin and Travancore'.
He was often referred to as the “Jewish Gandhi” and fought against the discrimination faced by the Malabari Jews at the hands of the Paradesi Jews.
Reports of nuns and priests coming into close contact with wild animals were also found in newspapers.
The 146-page book, written under the pseudonym of Kerala Putra, critically analyses the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms.
Visit to the village always ends with the mind-stirring question: What if we never left?
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